Benefits
Microsoft PowerPoint turns your ideas into compelling presentations using professional-looking templates. Use animations, transitions, photos, and online videos to tell one-of-a-kind stories. Coauthor team can create, edit, view, present, or share presentations quickly and easily from anywhere.
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How to create
- Create a PowerPoint presentation
- Get design ideas for slides with PowerPoint Designer
- Insert a picture in PowerPoint and apply an artistic effect to a picture
How to collaborate
- Work together on PowerPoint presentations
- Add, change, hide, or delete comments in a presentation
How to share
- Share your PowerPoint presentation with others
- Save a presentation as a video
- Save your presentation as a PDF
- Inspect your presentation before you share
How to organize
- Add, rearrange, duplicate, and delete slides in PowerPoint
- Apply a slide layout
- Guides for arranging slides in PowerPoint
Getting Started with Powerpoint
With Office 365, collaborate using real-time co-authoring and comments to get input from teammates on your presentation. Plus, save it to the cloud to easily share with others and access it from anywhere, at any time, on any device.
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Download PowerPoint Download PowerPoint
PowerPoint can be downloaded from the Office 365 portal.
PowerPoint Online Access PowerPoint Online
PowerPoint can be accessed online through your web browser.
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- Navigate to the portal and sign in with your McMaster email and password
- Click and expand Install Office
- Click Office 365 apps
- Follow the installation wizard
- Open PowerPoint
- Sign in with your McMaster email and password
Support for Powerpoint
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PowerPoint Help Center PowerPoint help
Access detailed instructions on how to use PowerPoint
PowerPoint Training Videos PowerPoint Training Videos
Explore PowerPoint with informational videos
Frequently Asked Questions
Who? What? Where? Why? How?
Frequently asked questions about the Applications, People and Data/File Storage in Office 365.
University Technology Services (UTS)
Having trouble accessing the Office 365 portal, licensing your Office 365 ProPlus apps, or need help with your MacID and password? Contact the Service Desk for assistance.
UTS Service Desk
- Burke Science Building (BSB) Room 245
- Monday – Friday 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
- uts@mcmaster.ca
- 905-525-9140 x 24357 (2HELP)
- https://www.mcmaster.ca/uts/
Mills Library Service Desk
- 2nd Floor Mills Library, Learning Commons
- Monday – Thursday 11:00 am – 7:00 pm,
Friday 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Policies and Terms for McMaster Microsoft Office 365
Terms of Use, Privacy, & Security
Users of this service are governed by the following policies, failure to comply may result, at a minimum, with suspension of service.